The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how you can perform serial port communication in the VBA (Visual Basic Applications - script editor included in any typical Microsoft Excel distribution) but without using the MSComm control or any other third party add-on or ActiveX. Serial.Introduction to Serial Port Communication in VBA * send "1234" over a serial connection once a second * Sketch Arduino and Visual Basic Part 1 - Receiving Data From the Arduino At the same time it blinks the built in LED on pin 13. The Arduino Sketch sends the string “1234” over the serial connection once every second. The example uses a very simply form and shows what ever it recieves from the Arduino in a text box. Arduino to Visual Basic 2013 Communication A simple example of receiving data from the Arduino. For me, fully learning the IDE is beyond what I want and have time for but over the course of a weekend I managed to create my first working program. If, like me, you prefer an off line installer, you can get one at Īfter installing the software it took me a while and many Google searches before I started to figure out the IDE. The download is just the installer which will download the main program from the internet. Visual Studio 2013 Community is available for download at. It includes several languages but for now I am only interested in Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2013 Community, on the other hand, is a full featured IDE and development system free to use for students, open source contributors and small development teams. Visual Studio Express is a striped down version of the larger packages and has some major limitations. Visual Basic comes as part of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Suite and I initially download and played with Visual Studio Express which in turn lead to Visual Studio Community. Visual Basic kept being recommended for ease of use and quick development. I haven’t done any PC programming for many years and so I looked at what various options are currently available. After creating the dropControllerBT app and realizing how much easier controlling the dropController device is through the app I started to think about creating a PC app.
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